The profusion of virtual reality projects showcased at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival is a testament to the fact that the tools and techniques for cinematic storytelling are expanding. Film schools are adapting, often quickly creating new courses that attempt to help students navigate this new frontier. My colleague Eric Hanson, for example, now teaches a course in University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts called “Experiments in Immersive Design.” The course was originally designed to help students understand the history, theory and practice of three-dimensional filmmaking. But under Hanson it has shifted more to incorporate his background and […]

A new press release from MoMA announces that the museum will be the sole host of a Björk retrospective from March 7 to June 7. From the press release: The installation will present a narrative, both biographical and imaginatively fictitious, cowritten by Björk and the acclaimed Icelandic writer Sjón Sigurdsson. Björk’s collaborations with video directors, photographers, fashion designers, and artists will be featured, and the exhibition culminates with a newly commissioned, immersive music and film experience conceived and realized with director Andrew Huang and 3-D design leader Autodesk. Andrew Thomas Huang, who directed Björk’s “Mutual Core” video, was one of […]

Andrew Thomas Huang, one of our “25 New Faces” this year, sadly missed out on the annual gathering for newly inducted alums in Tacoma because, he said, he was in London for the whole summer. He didn’t say what project he was working on exactly, but it turns out to be have been, very excitingly, a music video for Thom Yorke and Flea’s band Atoms for Peace. This great promo for “Before Your Very Eyes” is yet another dream collaboration for Huang, whose previous two music videos were for Sigur Rós and Björk.

After going four years without making a studio album, Sigur Rós finally released Valtari last May and just today announced that a new record, Kveikur, will drop this June 18. The band, now a three-piece after the departure earlier this year of Kjartan “Kjarri” Sveinsson, has a darker and more primal sound as evidenced in the track “Brennisteinn,” which translates as “sulfur.” The track’s video, directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, perfectly captures the band’s heavier sonic palette.